Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...
After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.
The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...
Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...
An outbreak of avian flu in 2023 hammered a colony of southern elephant seals in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego region, leading to a 50% decline in its population. But over the 2024-2025 breeding season, ...